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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Paris Bunny Invasion

As we were out viewing the windows around the Madeleine.French Girl let out a great sniff. A 'HMPH' regarding the invasion of Easter bunnies in Fauchon's windows. I was informed traditionally the French only had chocolate church bells, chickens and eggs for Easter.The bunny is a trendy interloper. Perhaps like the wretched Cane Toad that invaded Australia? Here you see the classic French traditional chocolate church bell. For some reason I can't figure out the French are deeply enamored with the stupid chickens!

Honestly, does this look like a savvy chicken with je ne sais quoi to you? I think not.

At least Fauchon is keeping a low profile with their chickens - not quite so silly in my opinion. There will be more on the dumb French chicken/poule a demain. Prepare to be shocked.

The almighty PIERRE HERME has included a BUNNY in his Easter/Paques collection, so TAKE THAT French Girl! HMPH indeed.

Anyway bunnies are famous for proliferating madly so why fight it? The bunny has become like the cupcake in Paris - A fact of life. Here you see the bunny and the chicken duking it out with the kingly egg on top. I think it's a losing battle. Some fiercely traditional Frenchies would do best to accept the influx of the trendie Bunny. That's all there is to it.

We always had an Easter basket full of goodies, so I had to make sure my son did, too. It's a great excuse for chocolate, let's face it. Chicks, bunnies, bells,... I'm open! Those all look good, Carol!

Another fabulous informative post. I do love an Easter bunny, but chickens whilst looking bizarre in chocolate, do make more sense regarding the egg thing. I love their church bells! I didn't know that was a French tradition. Now I need to arrange to be in Paris for Christmas/early January to have galette des roi/April fools day for the red fish and now Easter for the chocolate bells. I'm rather impressed with your cane toad knowledge- thankfully I've never seen a chocolate toad- I don't know that they'd be big sellers....

Delectable post! I think I would gain 5 pounds just walking past these places if I were there!Luckily most of our chocolate in our town is in the mall. I will be keeping away this easter. Beach season is coming!The Wanderfull Travelercanadianculinarytravel.blogspot.com/

My Mum is from Alsace, a province of France, and in Alsace, it's the Easter Hare which brings the eggs.Then again, Alsace was German for quite a bit of it's history, so the hare/bunny thing come probably from the German influence.